Virtual Keyboard is closer than you think.....

[nerax]

Seems that some of the people on xda have already dumped the rom and have shown screen shots of a fully integrated virtual keyboard. However still in its beta phase im sure a ROM will be cooked very shortly to integrate this feature. I will keep you up to date on what i find.

[constellanation]

thats great, and your profile picture scares me.

[nerax]

Its my wife at 7am = ) taken with the g1 gotta love the clarity.

[constellanation]

you are a lucky man! also lucky because most people have complained about the lowlight resolution on the camera!

[bizarro_stormy]

itd be nice to have a second pull up tab like the menu to the left of that that you can pull up for a keyboard

just throwing my UI/UX ideas out there -- :P

[mikef1182]

Gotta love xda-developers! Hopefully they will be as persistant with android as they are with WM. I love those guys!

[vbreal]

Its my wife at 7am = ) taken with the g1 gotta love the clarity.

hope she never joins AC and view all your posts. haaaaaaa

[My_Name_Is_Neo]

Well the post you are talking about is this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=432661
if you read it’s a Photoshop of the ROM he thinks should be made. and not what is done already.
As for the virtual keyboard its near impossible right now with SDK 1.0 as Google has removed the function ( windowManager.injectKeyEvent() ) previously available on earlier versions of SDK to simulate a keystroke. This was done as a security precaution, for not allowing applications to fiddle with other applications.
And I know this as I am a developer myself was making an application for one click use of calling cards where you just dial a number and it will call the calling card toll free number and dial the number after call gets connected. My development came to a screeching halt when I came to know about this. And now i cannot simulate keystrokes for dialing the numbers.
May be google includes this in the next version of the SDK but for now unless someone jumps right into the code of android Operating System (Its open source now) and makes that functionality public.

The chances are there but rare.

[Majestik Originality]

http://htcsource.com/index.php/Andro...-on-Q1-09.html

It is possible...

http://source.android.com/roadmap
Coming out hopefully Q1 of 2009

[DiscoDapper]

If you want a little preview of what it will be like, check this out:

http://www.iphonehangman.com/

it is not qwerty, but it's ABC...

I still think screen is way too small for typing portrait. Landscape works ok for virtual keyboard, but that's kind of silly with a slider like G1.